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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

** Project changed: gallery-app => gallery-app (Ubuntu)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1381187

Title:
  Autopilot tests make back ups for existing data in the user directory

Status in gallery-app package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Some autopilot suites are run on the current user session. So if they
  are run on the developer machine, they can be affected by and can
  affect the existing data in the user home folder. For this reason,
  this suites make back ups of existing data.

  We have found that this is a bad solution for the problem. It makes
  the set up code too complex and it needs to be updated every time
  somebody makes changes on the way the application stores and handles
  its data files. We end up with an unclear patched set up that not
  always works and makes the failures harder to diagnose.

  Form now on, we have decided that the tests must assume that they are
  run in a clean environment. If there are data files in the home
  directory that will affect the run, it will fail.

  Bug #1376423 was reported to get an easy way to get a clean
  environment to run the tests in the dev machine, phone or emulator.

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